Yes, 100% agreed. Unfortunately, his fervor ALSO sounds like he grew up not attending private schools and Ivy League. His "Pod Save America " bros I think told him an urban flava' would better engage the masses-- when you have never spoken with a speech affectation before, it's inauthentic and, fairly or unfairly, makes him come off as insincere.

Then, as you discuss in your excellent essay, I like others now ask why he was one of the more "hawkish" war-making POTUS' of his generation? #1 in drone warfare, if memory serves. Finally, he gets no special pass for being elected our first PanAfrican American POTUS. In all the profession, as everyone else seems to have acknowledged, the days of being venerated and adored just for being the first/ the only PanAfrican anything are over. The USA'S rapid and dramatic descent into broken systems and infrastructure demands everyone step up/ level up as soon as they take their oaths of office, in my considered opinion and daily business dealings in 2022 USAmerica.